Katie DeSisto Mr. Guzmán World History I 20 May 2024 Ivan the Terrible Ivan the Terrible’s mental illness caused by his childhood trauma and many deaths in his family led to Russia's downfall in 1500 and left Russia in disrepair for the next leader. But his life’s work wasn’t all that terrible. During his reign, he expanded Russian territories and built one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world, named Basils Cathedral. Russia would not be what it is today without the help of Ivan the Terrible. Ivan the Terrible struggled with mental illness his entire life, this is one of the reasons why he got the name Ivan the Terrible. Ivan the Terrible used many different tactics to stay in power, including the torture and murder of innocent civilians …show more content…
Ivan used ruthless force and brutal ways to stay in power. Ivan the Terrible had a deep distrust of the Boyars. Before Ivan was even born, his parents also very much disliked the Boyars and when his mom died they thought she had been poisoned. The Boyars would all fight for power because of Ivan's age, he could not assume the throne just yet. He disliked the Boyars, who were a privileged class of very wealthy landowners. He started to raise another class because that's how much he distrusted these people and would exile them to Serbia and give away their land. Ivan decided to hand-pick these people called the Oprichniki who would kill and exile the Boyars and then give the Oprichniki their land. The Oprichniki was a Russian police force handpicked by Ivan the Terrible to eliminate the Boyars. Ivan was scared that the Boyars were gaining too much power, so he made the Oprichniki. The Oprichniki would use excess force on people and started to gain power and were feared in Russia for their excess force. One of the biggest massacres was in Novgorod where they killed over 40 thousand people. When Ivan saw how much power the Oprichniki were gaining, he disbanded them and killed many of their leaders. Ivan wanted power so badly that he would do anything to do so. The Boyars asked for Ivan the Terrible to come back after he left. Ivan the Terrible was very distrustful of everyone around him. In 1564, Ivan fled Moscow and threatened to abdicate the throne because he thought that they were trying to embezzle him and commit treason. The country fell into much despair with the Boyars trying to rule the country. A group of Boyars searched for him and begged him to come back so that he would keep the peace. The Boyars agreed with Ivan. The only way he would come back is if he had absolute power. He made Russia the first nation-state. The first thing he did when he took the throne was to think of
For centuries, autocratic and repressive tsarist regimes ruled the country and population under sever economic and social conditions; consequently, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, various movements were staging demonstrations to overthrow the oppressive government. Poor involvement in WWI also added to the rising discontent against Nicholas as Russian armies suffered terrible casualties and defeats because of a lack of food and equipment; in addition, the country was industrially backward compared to countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and the USA. It had failed to modernize, this was to do with the tsars lack of effort for reforms. The country was undergoing tremendous hardships as industrial and agricultural output dropped. Famine and poor morale could be found in all aspects of Russian life. Furthermore, the tsar committed a fatal mistake when he appointed himself supreme commander of the armed forces because he was responsible for the armies constant string of defeats.
With the coinciding of a revolution on the brink of eruption and the impacts of the First World War beginning to take hold of Russia, considered analysis of the factors that may have contributed to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty is imperative, as a combination of several factors were evidently lethal. With the final collapse of the 300 year old Romanov Dynasty in 1917, as well as the fall of Nicholas II, a key reality was apparent; the impact that WWI had on autocratic obliteration was undeniable. However, reflection of Russia’s critical decisions prior to the war is essential in the assessment of the cause of the fall of the Romanov Dynasty. No war is fought without the struggle for resources, and with Russia still rapidly lagging behind in the international industrialisation race by the turn of the 20th century, the stage was set for social unrest and uprising against its already uncoordinated and temporarily displaced government. With inconceivable demands for soldiers, cavalry and warfare paraphernalia, Russia stood little chance in the face of the great powers of World War One.
Both monarchs had a royal background and were put in power with high expectations to continue the stability that the country possessed. Citizens aspire for all government officials to keep the peoples best interest in mind. But sadly, due to Ivan’s brutal childhood, he grew up observing and learning from the mannerisms of the corrupt elite. Ivan predominately gained power through fear and with this tactic was the first to exercise a despotism in Russia. One example of this is the story of the peasants who disturbed Ivan during one of his retreats. They came to him to complain of their governor who they believed was unjust but Ivan was so upset that they had troubled him with such a petty matter that he punished them. The men had their hands tied behind their backs, boiling hot alcohol poured on their heads and then their beards lit on fire with a candle. Apprehension and terror were Ivan’s main tools for keeping his people under control. Despite his totalitarian state of mind, Ivan believed that his decisions were still best for the country and the only way to keep it safe was by leaving it in constant fear. Although not always the most rational, the czar still made the suitable choices to keep the kingdom together. Similar to Ivan, Charles was not always under the influence of his mental disability. During his 42
Topic Sentence: Joseph Stalin was the leader of The Russian Revolution and made decisions that immensely impacted Russia’s people and the economy.
Why does the story begin with the death? Most books use mystery in the beginning and announce the death at the end. But Tolstoy used a different chronology, he started with the death of Ivan and then uses a flashback to show the reader what really happened. Also he chooses to start with the death to make the story seem real and not fictional. At Ivan’s funeral, nobody seemed devastated by the loss of Ivan, which gave the reader an understanding of how little Ivan’s life meant to the people even the ones close to him. Later in the reading, but before his death Ivan questions how he lived his mortality life and what if he lived his life properly. Before his death he had come to the realization that his death would benefit all the others around him. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" begins with the death of Ivan in order to get it out of the way. In essence the
“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone” (Kissinger). Two leaders that stood alone by the end of their rules were Adolf Hitler and Ivan IV, or Ivan the Terrible. Ivan the Terrible was crowned the tsar of Russia in 1547 and ruled until he died in 1584. Ivan was known as an evil ruler who accused most of his noblemen of treason, killed thousands of his subjects, and murdered his son. When Ivan the Terrible died, Russia was left in financial and political ruin (Bogatyrev). Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889 but loved Germany. In 1921, Hitler became the leader of the German Worker’s Party, a nationalist and anti-Semitic group, and based the Nazi Party on them. Hitler was dictator of Germany from 1933 until he committed suicide in 1945, and started World War II and the Holocaust while in power (“Adolf Hitler”, Biography.com). Ivan the Terrible and Adolf Hitler showed that people who have a similar impact on the world usually have the same characteristics. Ivan the Terrible and Adolf Hitler were both confident in themselves and in their countries and very paranoid, which caused them to be aggressive rulers willing to do whatever they needed to meet their goals.
Another way in which the confidence in Tsarist rule could have been affected is by the fact that those who did criticise Rasputin usually exaggerated their points in order to actually be heard by the public, falsifying most of their arguments, although it still caught traction amongst the public in Russian cities. The reason as to why Rasputin was so close to the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that he was believed to heal their son’s haemophilia, which coincidently, began to get better once Rasputin started treating him, overwhelming the Tsarina with admiration for Rasputin. This weakness in which their son had was kept from the public, which is why suspicion aroused as to the aim of the tsar for letting a Siberian peasant to live in the palace near his family. The people of Russia al...
Peter the Great would come to be one of Russia’s most influential and powerful rulers by implementing easily the greatest amount of reforms a Russian ruler has ever attempted and altering the course of Roman history for good. The Tsar’s many reforms brought Russia out of archaic times and into a more Europeanized modern age where not only was the entire structure of government changed but so too were extensive reforms brought onto late 17th century and early 18th century Russia’s industry, commerce, technology, military, and culture among other things. Peter the Great’s legacy brought Russia to the height of her power and is one that has inspired many Russians and historians alike through the centuries since his death.
Ivan the Terrible was the fist tsar of Russia whoes reign, one of the longest of the Russian tzars, transformed the medivial nation state into a Russian Empire .In order to understand what made Ivan the Terrible ruthless and feared, it is important to know his background. Ivan IV Vasilyevich was born on August 25, 1530 in Kolomenskoye, Moscow, Russia. His father died at age 3 from a blood infection, but on his death bead requested that Ivan become the ruler of Russia when he turned 15. After his father died, the boyars took over and paid no attention to Ivan, denying is right to the thrown. Boyars were the highest ranked members in the upper class of medieval Russia, second only to the prince. His mother queen Elena died mysteriously died1538, they believed from an assassination by poison and this left Ivan an orphan at age eight. Ivan remained isolated through out all of this, and his behavior later in life was thought to be a result from being forgotten as a child and also from the abuse that he suffered.
Ivan Ilyich Themes of a Poor Life in “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before, namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done, might after all be true. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly place people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false. He tried to defend all those things to himself and suddenly felt the weakness of what he was defending.
Before the Russian Revolution, Russia was going through some hard times. In Russia, during the early 1900’s, there was a huge difference between the rich and the poor. There was a large number of peasants living in poverty. On the other hand, there was a restricted amount of people living in a life of lavish, who owned large plots of land, and had servants to tend to their needs. Czar Nicholas II was one of the few that was living a life of luxury, which angered the peasants. What also angered the peasants was a man named Rasputin. Rasputin lived with the Romanovs because he claimed that he had magical powers that could cure Nicholas II’s son’s disease: haemophilia. When World War I came along...
Russia entered the 20th century as an oppressed tsarist state and the last of the Medieval European strongholds. The people were poor, starving and hopeless and, unlike the rest of Europe, had not experienced revolution. Eventually, however, a small group of revolutionaries emerged and overthrew the tsarist regime. Russia quickly devolved into anarchy and the resulting turmoil saw the rise of the Bolshevik Party and Vladimir Lenin. This was the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a prolonged event that deeply impacted Russia and the whole of Europe and the effects of which continue to be felt today.
the damage that the Tsar had done to the country. This was a huge task
One Work Cited In "The Death of Ivan Ilych", Leo Tolstoy examines the life of a man, Ivan, who would seem to have lived an exemplary life with moderate wealth, high station, and family. By story's end, however, Ivan's life will be shown to be devoid of passion -- a life of duties, responsibilities, respect, work, and cold objectivity to everything and everyone around Ivan. It is not until Ivan is on his death bed in his final moments that he realizes what will become the major theme of the story: that the personal relationships we forge are more important in life than who we are or what we own.
Propagandist Ezra Pound actively supported the ideologies of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during World War II. How was the case of this influential scholar different from other traitors who collaborated with the Nazi Regime? This is the central question for my research paper based on the research I have collected thus far. By studying how the life of Ezra Pound fits into the historiographical sequence of research I have gathered, it has become clearer that he was controversial later on because of his political views rather than for his writing. From the comments and critiques of his peers, one might say that Ezra Pound was a genius in his own right, and that his work played a large role in shaping contemporary poetry. After the war, when